A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Arbeau, Thoinot

ARBEAU, Thoinot, priest of Langres in France. His real name was Tabourot, of which the above is a kind of anagram. He lived about the end of the 16th century, and was the author of a remarkable book, now of excessive rarity, entitled 'Orchesographie et Traité en forme de dialogue par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et pratiquer l'honnête exercise des danses' (Langres: Jean de Preys, 1589). It contains a great number of French dance-tunes with words fitted to the melodies, and is of great interest and use in the history of dance music.

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